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SUMMARY: Parlour Portraits\: Gregory Betts\, Christian Bök\, and Vanessa Place
LOCATION:Olga Korper Gallery
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/60900
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Please join us for the launch of our chapbook Parlour Portraits, published =
on the occasion of our collaboration with sculptors Matt Donovan and Hallie=
 Siegel, who have created objects from our poems.=0A=0ADetails about the ar=
t show:=0AParlour Portraits represents one-part of Matt Donovan and Hallie =
Siegel=E2=80=99s overarching Petits Genre sculptural project and features c=
ommissioned poetic portraits from three contemporary poets: Gregory Betts, =
Christian B=C3=B6k, and Vanessa Place. Our collaborative exploration of the=
 relationship between sculpture, text and printmaking fashioned, perhaps no=
t anything as grand as a Salon des Refus=C3=A9s, but more like a petit salo=
n; a parlance of five interdisciplinary artists interested in the intersect=
ions and disseminations of language as material. Parlour Portraits is a rec=
ord of the installation of three wooden printing devices and the prints mad=
e by these devices of the three commissioned poems. Each wooden device is c=
ylindrical, with handles for rolling, and its surface is cut for printing a=
 single looping poem with no formal beginning or end. Prints of each poem, =
taken directly from the printing device, complete the installation. Each po=
em responds freely to the Steinbeck quote below, that also serves other pur=
poses in the overarching exhibition.=0A=0APetits Genre stages a return to D=
onovan and Siegel=E2=80=99s earlier text-based work, to seek out links betw=
een different forms of artistic representation =E2=80=93 painting, sculptur=
e and the printed word. Each piece will be a reinterpretation of the petits=
 genres of painting. The show builds on their =E2=80=9CHistory Machines=E2=
=80=9D collection: contemporary artifacts that are both forward-looking and=
 historically inspired, and that are primarily concerned with how ideas res=
urface again and again on the cultural landscape. Please visit www.historym=
achines.com for more.=0A
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